Massa: I'm right in there in the fight.

why so much hype about kimi he's not all that
felipe has been kicking he's ass left and right

It may be that we won't see a clear leader of the pack until the second half of this year.

Paulo... kicking his ass left and right? Pardon?
Look at the points. Massa only does his talking on antiseptic Tilke circuits. On a driver's circuit like Spa, Kimi has won 3 races back to back. Massa hasn't even won there once. He makes rookie blunders like throwing it away in Sepang when he was under no pressure at all.

SIDENOTE: Proof that there's no team orders at Ferrari: If massa had help up hamilton for at least a lap or two (not too difficult) then Kimi would have got 2nd. But complete pansy that he is, he rolled over and let hamilton through.

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Massa being a pansy. Hamilton practicually threw his McLaren down the sinde on the appraoch to the final chicane regardless of the size of the gap, and unless Massa wanted to lose points in the long run he did the right thing. I think Massa is a good driver but sometimes his mentality at times has been "win or bin" but I think that has started to be knocked out of him. But I do agree that Raikkonen is the better driver in the pairing as he is a lot smoother does not snatch the brakes which MAssa is prone under pressure and has a far better temperment under pressure.

Ian, Massa voluntarily admitted that he comfortably let Hamilton through the moment Hamilton looked like he was making a move.
My point is simply this - a more talented driver would have been a little more robust in his defense. I don't think Massa has either the skill or the confidence to hold off drivers like Raikkonen, Alonso, Hamilton, Kubica, or even someone like Heidfeld if they were competing with him in equal machinery.

I agree with you that Raikkonen is smoother, but it doesnt end there. He's capable of taking a car that is sub-par and making it punch above it's weight. I really dont think Massa could do that. Massa can drive a great car pretty quick, but that's about it.